Alternatives that don´t suck?

[Robert Hemus]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 20:03 -0400, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> dan wrote:
> 
> >On Tuesday 19 August 2008 17:26:30 Leon Goldstein wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>The reviewer of "Lenny" included some appreciated notes on hacking kppp
> >>so it works for user.  I'll give the procedure a go, and maybe I'll be
> >>able to get my Debian 4.0 to dialup as a user, eventually.
> >>    
> >>
> >Personally, I never did care much for kppp when I tried it some years ago when 
> >we were on dialup. I was always a hassle to set up. I switched to wvdial which 
> >(I thought) was much easier to configure and it just worked.
> >
> >Kind Regards,
> >Dan
> >
> >  
> >
> My first experience with configuring kppp was with Caldera eDesk 2.4.  I 
> remember I was apprehensive, but I just followed the instructions in the 
> excellent printed manual that came with eDesk 2.4 and it worked.  From 
> then on I found no difficulty with Kppp (other than, as I mentioned, 
> with Corel Linux -  a Debian based distro - and Debian 4.0) but rather 
> found configuring Netscape/Mozilla to set up e-mail much more elaborate.
> 
> Libranet Debian was also a delight, owing to its Adminmenu - a 
> collection of Perl scripts - that had a simple and elegant  dialup
> configuration. (Sigh)
Jeez, must be something wtong with me.  I found kppp no problem at all.  I think I was using it before Caldera e2.4?
Bob